{ "model": { "rank": 3205, "code": "thing-q80895", "model_id": "vr.tr.guerrilla-warfare", "name": "guerrilla warfare", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise and assess reported instances of guerrilla warfare, preserve disputed classifications, and support historical analysis and civilian protection.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q80895/", "tier": 2, "score": 89, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "urban guerrilla warfare", "Anti-Francoist urban guerrilla", "network-centric warfare", "Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War", "people's war", "Maoist insurgency in Afghanistan", "New People’s Army rebellion on Negros" ], "aliasCount": 7, "merged": 7, "knownIn": 89, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q80895", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80895", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:08:32Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 31.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c31-d07e-7cb1-8267-e3425126f0b8\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"Named definition, inclusion criteria, competing interpretation, unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Makes the analytical choice visible instead of treating a disputed label as settled." }, { "name": "Unit and period of assessment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Actor, formation, campaign, or episode; geographic boundary and date interval", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one episode from defining an organisation's entire history." }, { "name": "Operational mode", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Predominantly guerrilla, mixed, predominantly conventional, disputed, insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Allows coexistence and change between modes of fighting." }, { "name": "Political and military affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented relationships to political movements, state forces, coalitions, and sponsors", "why_it_matters": "Separates affiliation from assumed independence or shared command." }, { "name": "Command cohesion", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Centralised, federated, fragmented, changing, unknown; assessment source required", "why_it_matters": "Qualifies attribution of statements, commitments, and conduct to the wider force." }, { "name": "Territorial relationship", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intermittent presence, contested influence, sustained control, mixed, unknown; place and period required", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes armed presence from durable control or governance." }, { "name": "Civilian relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented support, accommodation, coercion, resistance, mixed relationships, unknown", "why_it_matters": "Avoids inferring consent from residence, silence, or material transfers." }, { "name": "Reported civilian harm", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "People killed, injured, missing, or displaced within a stated interval; ranges, sources, and attribution confidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports humanitarian assessment while preserving 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"description": "Tests distinctions from insurgency, terrorism, raiding, and conventional warfare.", "findings": [ { "id": "mode-versus-movement", "name": "Mode versus movement", "description": "Assess the mode of fighting separately from the movement's identity, goals, and other activities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence describe a sustained mode of armed conflict or only an isolated irregular attack?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mode-versus-movement-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims concern insurgency or terrorism and therefore require separate criteria rather than inheritance from the guerrilla label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mode-versus-movement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "armed-actors-and-political-relationships", "name": "Armed actors and political relationships", "description": "Records the organisation carrying out the fighting and its relationships to political and military authorities.", "rationale": "A guerrilla label does not establish organisational unity, 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"claims-and-dependencies", "name": "Claims and dependencies", "description": "Keep declared aims, demonstrated relationships, and inferred dependence separate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What political aims and constituencies does the force claim, and who disputes those claims?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claims-and-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes external assistance from external direction or control?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claims-and-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conflict-pattern-and-territory", "name": "Conflict pattern and territory", "description": "Assesses the mode of fighting and territorial relationships through historical evidence at an aggregate level.", "rationale": "Classification requires a pattern across time and place rather than reliance on a force's name or one event.", "layers": [ { "id": "pattern-of-armed-activity", "name": "Pattern of armed activity", "description": "Evaluates documented patterns without converting 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"description": "Record how relationships vary between communities and over time, including limits on meaningful choice.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes voluntary support from coerced compliance, pragmatic accommodation, or inability to leave?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "differentiated-civilian-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Whose testimony supports claims about recruitment, resource demands, dispute resolution, or resistance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "differentiated-civilian-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harm-and-legal-assessment", "name": "Harm and legal assessment", "description": "Separates documented harm, responsibility claims, and attributed legal assessments.", "findings": [ { "id": "harm-with-qualified-attribution", "name": "Harm with qualified attribution", "description": "Record civilian impacts and relevant assessments without deriving legal status from the guerrilla label.", "questions": [ { "text": "What civilian harms are 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A force can employ both." }, { "name": "asymmetric warfare", "difference": "Asymmetric warfare concerns consequential differences between opponents' capabilities or approaches; guerrilla warfare is one possible expression of such asymmetry." }, { "name": "resistance movement", "difference": "A resistance movement is an organized opposition that may use political, nonviolent, or armed methods; guerrilla warfare refers specifically to a mode of armed fighting." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of guerrilla warfare this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which scholarly and institutional definitions should anchor the model, and where do their inclusion criteria conflict?", "What minimum observation period and evidence support a recurring guerrilla pattern rather than isolated irregular activity?", "How should mixed guerrilla and conventional activity be represented without imposing an unsupported numerical threshold?", "Which methods can distinguish civilian consent, accommodation, and coercion when testimony is constrained or unevenly available?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it instead of creating another model?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "urban guerrilla warfare", "Anti-Francoist urban guerrilla", "network-centric warfare", "Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War", "people's war", "Maoist insurgency in Afghanistan", "New People’s Army rebellion on Negros" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 89 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 7 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one guerrilla warfare from another, and a guerrilla warfare from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a guerrilla warfare sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a guerrilla warfare from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a guerrilla warfare passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a guerrilla warfare between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a guerrilla warfare, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a guerrilla warfare is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a guerrilla warfare proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a guerrilla warfare, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a guerrilla warfare and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a guerrilla warfare consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a guerrilla warfare takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What guerrilla warfare is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of guerrilla warfare are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is guerrilla warfare operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of guerrilla warfare and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of guerrilla warfare?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as guerrilla warfare?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a guerrilla warfare came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a guerrilla warfare and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a guerrilla warfare is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a guerrilla warfare, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a guerrilla warfare, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a guerrilla warfare is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }